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today on the bus/ a man in his fifties/ smiled at a baby/
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144795
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I never meant to shipwreck you,
I didn't even know I was singing out loud.
I just stood on my rock a little too boldly,
and hummed a tune you wanted to hear.
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144751
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you'd do him more of a favor to kill him, than place upon him the burden of such an abrupt change in travel plans.
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144732
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“Guys, who would you rather live with.... Mom... or Dad.”
His younger siblings giggled in shock, not that they hadn’t thought about it... apparently.
"You know I'm right here..." I joked, waving at them.
“I’d rather live with mom.” the question-a
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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144777
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I remember the first & only time I parachuted it was 1964 my 16th birthday a rite of passage if you will from the old man an aerospace engineer & former WWII B24 bomber pilot I practice-jumped from oil barrels taught how to fall back then when the time came…
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144720
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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1447159
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Conjure calamity and calamity comes.
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144711
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Suddenly the producer, Irving, tosses a new idea into the discussion, an idea for a possible film. Then the writer, Herbert, does the talking. He performs, in fact, puts on a one-man show. The idea! The idea! It's…
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144786
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What the spaces say//
can be heard in the short/
and longer silences
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144733
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OhYou like quiet nights in?I do tooBut we might not get alongbecauseOnly part of youwants silence
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144600
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When I get my legs pumping, I’ll pop a spoke if I'm not careful. Massive fucking energy! And all that fat I was talking about? I don’t even really have that much of it, any of it really. My body fat is like one percent, which the doctors tell me isn’t
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144675
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The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.
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144673
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the sun is quiet like the mountains,
the birds except for their wings
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14461711
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A dirtied light falls through/
the grimed windowpanes.
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144698
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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144630
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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144611
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But the profligate are blameless now
Those who conflate sex and love the way
dumber animals mistake heat for light
have moved freely back to some primal zone
where if I’m felt to be contradictory to the
surroundings it’s because I wanted t
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144632
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The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
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144622
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If she was still breathing, Tom promised himself he would let her live, but right then his shoulder ached and his right hand was throbbing.
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144600
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To a tech-savvy millennial, the definition of progress is a hands-free blowjob, and the real number is not how many men you’ve been with but how many minutes you’ve made them wait.
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144566
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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144520
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"We gotta find a way to get high!" "Shh! My parents will hear you Tommy! Their bed is right above us." …
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144551
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“There are so few uses for Crisco, that to keep it in the house seems an unnecessary temptation,” said my health teacher.
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144500
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He woke up four hours later in his car in his garage with the worst headache of his life. He lurched out of the car and kicked over a basket of basil as he toddled towards the door to the house. He stopped and scooped the spilled basil back into the baske
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1445114
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the mother tells her child the flashes at the horizonare fireworks, not bombs, so he will not be afraid.at night he curls by the door or else he follows her to a different place. he is quiet, then. as if he knows the secret challenge.better if he and all the others…
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144585
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Love me like a crutch
Love me when I'm strong
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144521
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...to know they are not alone
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144594
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I’m not / going to change you I /promise
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